A film blog heading into a new academic quarter, and bringing a few old projects back to life.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Ailing

Not me, my computer. In shop till at least Tuesday. Am stuck with miserable dial-up connection. Did not know could become such high-speed princess in three months' time after six years of dial-up, but feel helpless, suffocated. More content updates to come ASAP once lovely broadband restored, including write-ups of lurid Saw II, huge letdown of Jarhead, and utter catastrophe of Shopgirl (speaking of "ailing").

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I tried dial-up for the first few weeks I was here, but after having had broadband for the whole previous year I found that I couldn't go back without spending an inordinate amount of time just staring at the computer, waiting for it to download big things. So: I feel your pain. Sorry that the computer is continuing to ail. It seems wrong that computers are built with such a short lifespan that they start dying after only a few years.

Oh, also: my students who are in England and have seen the new Pride and Prejudice tell me that it's really solidly good. I've never gotten the sense that filmizations (a word I learned this weekend from The Snake Pit!) of 19thC novels are necessarily your thing, but at least there's some word from people whose tastes I don't distrust that something good is coming down the pipeline. In case that offers any hope. Also, the preview for Derailed makes it look pretty darned good, and scary as hell.

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